The Internet's original designers intended their creation to connect-not control-people. But the dotcom crash of 2001 and the dismantling of Napster signaled the end of true freedom for the Internet user. Corporate control comes in the form of data mining and selling of personal information, search engines that skew their results toward paying customers, cookies on our hard drives, and many other forms of manipulation. But all is not lost; web veteran Jacques Vallee points the way.